Want to buy Collegiate Baseball Newspaper?
In my first Podcast of the year on Sunday I mentioned it looked like Collegiate Baseball Newspaper would be ceasing operation after 65+ years. Posts on the baseballnews.com website indicated the website and newspaper were for sale. On Monday, I got an e-mail reply from publisher/owner Lou Pavlovich confirming that he is retiring after 52 years of running the publication.
In his e-mail, he stated that he had been in negotiations to sell the enterprise about three years ago, but one of the potential investors changed his mind. Pavlovich said he told his wife at the time that if they did not sell the paper in the next two years that they would retire in October, 2023.
That is what they have done. They are preparing their office to be put up for sale.
Collegiate Baseball Newspaper, started by Pavlovich's father in 1958, was the leading source of national news about college baseball for many years and had the oldest national rankings.
He told me that the newspaper and Website are still for sale. If interested, contact him at cbn@baseball.news.com. I'll be glad to accept a finder's fee if you make a deal.
Banquets set
Here is some information on preseason banquets involving state teams. I do not know if there are any tickets remaining, but offer this for information only.
* Coastal Carolina: Feb. 1, 6 p.m., Chesapeake House at Myrtle Beach
* South Carolina: Feb. 3, 6 p.m., Seawell's, Columbia
Season tickets on sale
Many of the state's programs have season tickets on sale. Some of the smaller schools offer a season ticket at a price far less expensive than the cost of buying a ticket to each game individually.
In addition to season tickets and single game tickets, schools like Clemson and South Carolina offer a "flex" schedule where you can buy a group of tickets for a discount price, then apply as many as you want to a particular game or series of games, depending on ticket availability and some restrictions imposed by individual schools.
Many schools have ticket information links at the baseball pages on their athletics website. Links to baseball pages are at the right of this page.
I have used the "flex" option a couple of seasons and have found it to fit my needs.
Updating some signees
As I mentioned in Sunday's Podcast, I am quite often slack when it comes to reporting offseason news. Below are some recruiting/transfers classes I had not reported.
Rankings
* NCBWA Division II Southeast Region preseason poll: 1. North Greenville. 2. Newberry.
Region
Region
* NJCAA Division I preseason poll: 1. College of Central Florida. 14. Florence-Darlington Tech.
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